Haas Professors Receive Schwabacher Fellowships
The Haas School of Business Executive Committee has awarded Schwabacher Fellowships to Haas Associate Professor Nicolae Gârleanu and Assistant Professor Yaniv Konchitchki. The Haas Executive Committee is a panel that includes the dean and senior faculty. The fellowship is the highest honor that Haas bestows upon up-and-coming faculty stars. It consists of a small, unrestricted cash award, a research grant, and a modest instructional point credit.
Gârleanu is a member of the faculty’s Finance Group. He joined Berkeley-Haas in 2007 and was awarded the Paul H. Stephens Chair in Applied Investment Analysis in 2011. He has received numerous research awards, including the Journal of Finance Smith Breeden Prize in 2013 and the Review for Financial Studies Barclays Brennan Award in 2012.
La Salle Students Receive Fulbright Scholarships
La Salle University students Marc Vallone and Christopher Mayers (MBA 2014) have received Fulbright Scholarships and will spend a year overseas.
Vallone, who earned an MBA from La Salle in May, will travel to Brazil where he will teach college-level English and conduct research on how local organizations provide for at-risk youth. Mayers, who is currently a student in La Salle’s M.A. in Central and Eastern European Studies, will teach English in Pernik, Bulgaria, and teach English to high school students. He will graduate from La Salle in August and begin teaching in September.
Kellstadt Adds Evening Cohort MBA
The Evening Cohort MBA offered through the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business is the newest addition to DePaul’s roster of MBA options. This accelerated cohort experience offers those who are already working a structured class schedule and the opportunity to learn as a unit.
The Evening Cohort MBA is strategically planned around networking and building relationships. Candidates will take the same classes at the same time and graduating together. Other assignments include a group consulting project for a nonprofit and an international study trip together to explore international business to meet with global executives. Continue reading…
BU Students Win Core New Product Challenge
Nine students at Boston University School of Management were crowned champions at the 16th Core New Product Challenge, the culmination of SM323 (known as “The Core”), for their presentation of a new dog-feeding accessory.
The SM323 sets of courses are marketing, operations, information systems, and finance. All four courses are integrated into a one-semester sequence through a common semester-long project focused on new product development. Continue reading…
Harvard 1st Year MBA Students Present IPO Day
May 14 marked IPO Day at Harvard Business School, where students in the FIELD 3 course had the opportunity to present viable businesses to 900+ first year MBA students. The audience cheered as teams presented ideas ranging from making single origin chocolates fun and accessible (DelectareChocolates.com), a solution that ‘unshrinks’ woolen clothing (Unshrinkit.com) to an app (SpotRocket.co) that promised to help job seekers find the “hottest start-up to work for.”
This presentation capped the yearlong FIELD course. FIELD 3, the final module, thrust students into experiencing the real-world roles of entrepreneur, analyst, marketer, and investor. It challenged them to refine the leadership and teamwork skills they learned in FIELD 1 last fall, and the product or service development skills they practiced while working with global partner organizations during FIELD 2. The students had two months to refine their ideas and develop a customer sales pitch, all leading up to Launch Day in mid-April, and teams with a viable idea advanced to this month’s IPO Day.
“Our objective with FIELD 3 was to provide students with an opportunity to apply and integrate the knowledge, skills, and tools acquired in the first-year curriculum,” says Senior Associate Dean Youngme Moon, chair of the MBA Program. “It exposed the entire class to the challenge and excitement of being an entrepreneur, creating an idea, and making it a reality. “The focus was on taking action, learning from the response to that action, and making changes to improve your chances of success,” Moon continues. “Almost all successful ventures go through this ‘pivoting’ process multiple times as they probe and test their ideas. FIELD 3 uniquely challenged students to experience that process and learn from it.”
NYU Stern’s Director of MBA Admissions Shares Tips for Candidates on the Waitlist
Rabia Ahmed, who serves as the director of MBA admissions for NYU Stern, recently sat down with www.topmba.com, in order to share her top insights and tips for candidates who find themselves on the waitlist for 2014.
1. Be self-aware
The MBA admissions committee has seen strengths in your application, but there may be ways to improve your candidacy. We are looking for people who have the personal initiative to improve themselves. We provide detailed information about what we evaluate and why on our website. We are looking for the kind of person who can take that information, do a self-assessment and take appropriate action.
2. Be proactive
Provide us with updates to your application. New information about employment, updated test scores, as well as supplemental recommendation letters or essays can all potentially enhance your qualifications. New information is most effective when it provides a different or updated perspective to the committee.
3. Be appropriate
Each school has different policies for how to interact while on the waitlist. At NYU Stern, we are open to communication and welcome updates, but not all schools are. We want to know that you continue to remain interested in our program, but we don’t need daily or weekly updates.
4. Be considerate
to your fellow applicants on the waitlist. If you have made other plans, graciously give up your spot for others.
5. Be encouraged
The NYU Stern committee feels that your application has some real strengths and therefore has offered you a place on the MBA waitlist. At the same time, please understand that we do have many more qualified applicants than spots, so if things don’t go your way, take heart and consider reapplying next year.
